Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1887-07-28

ceeds Duryee as chief clerk IN the patent
office.
The army retiring board, OF which
Quartermaster General Holabird is presi-
dent, has recommended the retirement oil
Capt. j. F. Stimsoa, Third cavalry who
is now under treatment at the government
hospital for tho insane.
The secretary OF the interior has decided
that repeated appeals Of the same pension
claim, based on the same or cumulative
evidence which does not affect the vital
status Of the claim, viii not be given con-
sideration by the department.. A large
number OF claims nave appeared Tor a
great many years in the pension Office,
only to be rejected. 20 new evidence Is
produced, but the elaims are showed Tor
ward with the hope thatthey may possibly
slip through.
One Of the most noted captures made by
the secret service officials for many years
was the arrest Of William Rockway and j.
b. Doyle on a charge of counterfeiting and
circulating United States bonds. Brock
way is now serving q term at Sing Singan
Doyle Is IN prison atJoliet, Ill. Determin
ed efforts have been made to secure the re-
lease of Doyle, and Influential friends
have interested themselves in his behalf.
The president has decided that he will not
reopen the case.
Buffalo offers 500, 900 ior the next in.
~vention for utilizing the water power oil
Niagara river.
The United States government officials
at Chicago have decided TO purge Chicago
harbor OF the dens OF iniquity known as
bum boats.
Gambrinus Assembly Knights of Labor,
Milwaukee. are talking OF seeeding, because
OF Powderly's temperance views.
Chinch bugs have obtained a ioothold in
the northern portion OF Illinois to such an
extent as TO assure an immense amount oil
damage.
just forty years ago Robert Bonner was
foreman of the New York Evening Mirror,
at SIS a week. He is now worth So, o0o,-
600.
At Greensboro, Ky, several buildings,
including livery stables with horses, were
burned. Loss, $1,000; insurance. $40
900.
At Billings, Mont, the Park hotel was
destroyed by fire. Cause, alamp explosion,
Loss. SIT 500; insurance, nominal.
James ID. Belt, while riding along the
road on horseback near C9ve-in- Rock,
Hardie county, ILL.,, was shot dead by un
known PERSONS. Belt was n hail. brother
OF Logan Belt, who was killed in the same
manner and near the same place on the
evening OF june z. Logan Belt was
wealthy but a notorious character and
the leader Of a faction in Hardie county,
the opposing faction being known as the
Oldham party. There is a suspicion that
James Belt was killed by some OF the Old
ham faction.
At Boulder. Mont, preparations are in
progress Tor the hanging Of A. Chart, who
murdered his prospective father-ilrlaw a
year ago. because be resented his attSn'
tions to his daughter.
At Oh City, Pa, John McNeenry shot his
sonJohn recently. When two officers came
to arrest him. he shot Officer James. Me-
Neenry was shot by the other officer, butnot
fatally wounded. 1t was found he had
killed his wife.
At Butte, Mont, it is understood that
the Montana Copper company has com
bined with C. Y. Larrabee, the owner Of
the celebrated Mountain View copper mine
of Meadyille, to develop this mine and re-
open the grand Montana works OF al en-.
larged scale.
The provincial OF the hermits of the Or.
der OF Augustine in the United States has
been deposed from his office on grave and
seandalous charges, and a former proyin'
cial, who, it is alleged, was defeated by
crooked means at the last election, has
been appointed his successor. The depos.
ed officer is Rev. John p. Gilmore.
Private letters from an officer and
maehinist on board the new steel cruiser
Atlanta say that during the target practice
10 Gardeners bay recently the eight-inch
bow and stern barbette pivot guns recoil.
ed with such force as to tear loose the
track ON which they turned and rip up a
portion Of the heavy gun deck. These
guns are the heaviest guns afoat in the
service, and those on the Atlanta are the
first to be tested on board ship by our
naval officers. The damage was lone by
a charge of ninety pounds OF powder.
Parties digging a well in Nashville. Tenn,
found the task OF a mastodout wenty-eight
inches in circumference and nearly seven
feet long.
Senator Chandler of n. H., states that
he never wrote or inspired the letter re
Gently attributed to HIM, in which he was
represented as favoring Blaine and Sherman
us the Republican presidential ticket.
A financial paper publishes an interview
with Lown OF New York, counselor at law.
In which the latter impaired o hitherto
unpublished opinion on the alien act given
by Attorney General Garland to President
Cleveland. This opinion is: This aetdoes
not apply to mines or inheritablG interest
in real estate. Aliens can lawfully hold
stock in American corporations owing
mineral lands in territories, provided
such alleu holdings do not exceed 20 per
ceit. Aliens may advance money with
which to develop mines, but cannot oh.
tain interest in real estate through such
advances. They may lawfully contrac,
with American owners to work mines,
Lo&n adds that in his own opinion aliens
can dodge the act legally by putting their
money in ninesy-nine-year leases.
Secretary Fairchild appointed W.. A
Ferret OF New Orleans supervising archi
teet Of the treasury, at a salary Of 81, SOC
per u Dir. Ferrett is the particular
friend OF Senator Eustis, and Is said to
stand high in his profession. Mr.. Bell, tbs
was appointed from Iowa by President
Arthur.
The bodies OF the six Swiss tourists lost
while attempting to ascend the Jangfrar
without guides rave been found at tho
precipice.
Gen. Staueh, admisistrator general of the
Congo free states, telegraphs from Brussels
TO the London agency OF the Associated
Press that the central government OF Con
go, having its headquarters at Brussels
has not received any unfavorable news
from the Stanley expedition.
Helen Gladstone, the OK. premier young
est daughter. is at the head OF the great
NEWMAN ladies' college near Cambridge,
England.
At Arden, Ont. Mrs. w. b. Mills. hci
two daughters, and u sister iu-law weni
into the lake to battle. One oil the daugh
tiers got beyond her depth and the Others
went TO her rescue. All except the young.
est daughter were drowned.
DE Lesseps presided in Paris at the
meeting Of shareholders OF the Panama
canal. His Observation-Disclosures a lessen.
4 inc in cnnt1anra that tho 10 mol would ~
opened in 1889, but expressed the hops
that connection between the Atlantic and
Pacific would then exist across the 18th
mus OF Panama, and the works be com
pleted soon afterwards.
The bogus $50 silver certificates OF tn,
series oil 1850 nave made their appearanc,
again in New York city. These counter
feits first appeared in 1888, and were cir
eulated chiefly in the West. Two year
ago last December the counter letter wal
arrested and the plate captured, but not
until the iorgers had buried a lot OF th,
bogus money. The certificates are a tria,
shorter than tue genuine notes.
Acting Secretary Muldrow has denied a
petition from the Central Pacific Railroad
company asking that the commissioner O
the general land office be instructed tC
issue patents to the company for landE
amounting TO 194. o51 acres in the Sacra
mento (Cal.,) land district. The mon
mineral atiidayits accompanying the list
OF land forwarded by the company wer,
not satisfactory to the land commissioner
Morgan, the New York bieyclist, ha:
broken the worlds record for d quarter o.
a mile, having made the distance in 33]
seconds. The previous record was 80 1t
seconds.
At Petersburg, Ind, Peter Burkhard 3
aged seventy. a wealthy farmer. having be
come jealous OF his young wife, shot hel
dead and thea killed himself.
A summary of business transacted in TIL,
bureau OF persons for the week ending july
16, shows that Z, 942 cases were disposed
oil during the week, leaving pending 300,
412, making a reduction Of EOS claims
from the number nending at tho eommenea